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Nitrite Reduction in Reconstituted and Whole Spinach Chloroplasts during Carbon Dioxide Reduction

Year: 1977

Type: article

Abstract: Nitrite reduction in either whole, isolated spinach chloroplasts (Spinacia oleracea L.) or in reconstituted spinach chloroplasts is stimulated by a short period of photosynthetic CO(2) fixation in the light prior to nitrite addition. With reconstituted chloroplasts, a similar stimulation can be obtained in nitrite reduction without CO(2) fixation by the addition of dihydroxyacetone phosphate or fructose 6-phosphate. Specific intermediate metabolites of the photosynthetic carbon reduction cycle may have a regulatory role in nitrite reduction in chloroplasts in the light.

Source: PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

DOI: 10.1104/pp.59.2.184

Authors: Zvi Plaut, Klaus Lendzian, James A. Bassham

Institutions: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Agricultural Research Organization, Technical University of Munich

Language: English

Topic: Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

OpenAlex ID: W2083290938